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59.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="nmblookup"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>nmblookup — NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS
- names</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt>nmblookup</tt> [-M] [-R] [-S] [-r] [-A] [-h] [-B <broadcast address>] [-U <unicast address>] [-d <debug level>] [-s <smb config file>] [-i <NetBIOS scope>] [-T] [-f] {name}</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html">Samba(7)</a> suite.</p><p><b>nmblookup</b> is used to query NetBIOS names
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60.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="nmblookup"></a><div class="titlepage"><div></div><div></div></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>nmblookup — NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS
+ names</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">nmblookup</tt> [-M] [-R] [-S] [-r] [-A] [-h] [-B <broadcast address>] [-U <unicast address>] [-d <debug level>] [-s <smb config file>] [-i <NetBIOS scope>] [-T] [-f] {name}</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><b class="command">nmblookup</b> is used to query NetBIOS names
and map them to IP addresses in a network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP
queries. The options allow the name queries to be directed at a
particular IP broadcast area or to a particular machine. All queries
are done over UDP.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-M</span></dt><dd><p>Searches for a master browser by looking
- up the NetBIOS name <i><tt>name</tt></i> with a
- type of <tt>0x1d</tt>. If <i><tt>
+ up the NetBIOS name <i class="replaceable"><tt>name</tt></i> with a
+ type of <tt class="constant">0x1d</tt>. If <i class="replaceable"><tt>
name</tt></i> is "-" then it does a lookup on the special name
- <tt>__MSBROWSE__</tt>. Please note that in order to
+ <tt class="constant">__MSBROWSE__</tt>. Please note that in order to
use the name "-", you need to make sure "-" isn't parsed as an
argument, e.g. use :
- <b><tt>nmblookup -M -- -</tt></b>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-R</span></dt><dd><p>Set the recursion desired bit in the packet
+ <b
class="userinput"><tt>nmblookup -M -- -</tt></b>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-R</span></dt><dd><p>Set the recursion desired bit in the packet
to do a recursive lookup. This is used when sending a name
query to a machine running a WINS server and the user wishes
to query the names in the WINS server. If this bit is unset
where it ignores the source port of the requesting packet
and only replies to UDP port 137. Unfortunately, on most UNIX
systems root privilege is needed to bind to this port, and
- in addition, if the <a href="nmbd.8.html">nmbd(8)</a> daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-A</span></dt><dd><p>Interpret <i><tt>name</tt></i> as
+ in addition, if the <a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a> daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
+ </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-A</span></dt><dd><p>Interpret <i class="replaceable"><tt>name</tt></i> as
an IP Address and do a node status query on this address.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-n <primary NetBIOS name></span></dt><dd><p>This option allows you to override
the NetBIOS name that Samba uses for itself. This is identical
-to setting the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#netbiosname" target="_top"><i><tt>NetBIOS
-name</tt></i></a> parameter in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</a> file. However, a command
+to setting the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#netbiosname" target="_top"><i class="parameter"><tt>NetBIOS
+name</tt></i></a> parameter in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> file. However, a command
line setting will take precedence over settings in
-<a href="smb.conf.5.html">
smb.conf(5)</a>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i <scope></span></dt><dd><p>This specifies a NetBIOS scope that
-<b>nmblookup</b> will use to communicate with when
+<a href="smb.conf.5.html">
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-i <scope></span></dt><dd><p>This specifies a NetBIOS scope that
+<b class="command">nmblookup</b> will use to communicate with when
generating NetBIOS names. For details on the use of NetBIOS
scopes, see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are
<span class="emphasis"><em>very</em></span> rarely used, only set this parameter
NetBIOS name, it causes the client to log on using the servers local
SAM (as opposed to the Domain SAM). </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-O socket options</span></dt><dd><p>TCP socket options to set on the client
socket. See the socket options parameter in
-the <a href="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</a> manual page for the list of valid
+the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> manual page for the list of valid
options. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-B <broadcast address></span></dt><dd><p>Send the query to the given broadcast address. Without
this option the default behavior of nmblookup is to send the
query to the broadcast address of the network interfaces as
- either auto-detected or defined in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#INTERFACES" target="_top"><i><tt>interfaces</tt></i>
- </a> parameter of the <a href="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</a> file.
+ either auto-detected or defined in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#INTERFACES" target="_top"><i class="parameter"><tt>interfaces</tt></i>
+ </a> parameter of the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> file.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-U <unicast address></span></dt><dd><p>Do a unicast query to the specified address or
- host <i><tt>unicast address</tt></i>. This option
- (along with the <i><tt>-R</tt></i> option) is needed to
+ host <i class="replaceable"><tt>unicast address</tt></i>. This option
+ (along with the <i class="parameter"><tt>-R</tt></i> option) is needed to
query a WINS server.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the version number for
-<b>smbd</b>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the
+<b
class="command">smbd</b>.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the
configuration details required by the server. The
information in this file includes server-specific
information such as what printcap file to use, as well
as descriptions of all the services that the server is
-to provide. See <a href="smb.conf.5.html" target="_top"><tt>
+to provide. See <a href="smb.conf.5.html" target="_top"><tt class="filename">
smb.conf(5)</tt></a> for more information.
The default configuration file name is determined at
-compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debug=debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p><i><tt>debuglevel</tt></i> is an integer
+compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debug=debuglevel</span></dt><dd><p><i class="replaceable"><tt>debuglevel</tt></i> is an integer
from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be
logged to the log files about the activities of the
data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will
override the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#loglevel" target="_top">log
level</a> parameter in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html" target="_top">
-<tt>smb.conf(5)</tt></a> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logbasename</span></dt><dd><p>File name for log/debug files. The extension
-<tt>".client"</tt> will be appended. The log file is
+<tt
class="filename">smb.conf(5)</tt></a> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logbasename</span></dt><dd><p>File name for log/debug files. The extension
+<tt class="constant">".client"</tt> will be appended. The log file is
never removed by the client.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-T</span></dt><dd><p>This causes any IP addresses found in the
lookup to be looked up via a reverse DNS lookup into a
If a NetBIOS name then the different name types may be specified
by appending '#<type>' to the name. This name may also be
'*', which will return all registered names within a broadcast
- area.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p><b>nmblookup</b> can be used to query
- a WINS server (in the same way <b>nslookup</b> is
- used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server, <b>nmblookup</b>
- must be called like this:</p><p><b
>nmblookup -U server -R 'name'</b></p><p>For example, running :</p><p><b>nmblookup -U samba.org -R 'IRIX#1B'</b></p><p>would query the WINS server samba.org for the domain
+ area.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p><b class="command">nmblookup</b> can be used to query
+ a WINS server (in the same way <b class="command">nslookup</b> is
+ used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server, <b class="command">nmblookup</b>
+ must be called like this:</p><p><b
class="command">nmblookup -U server -R 'name'</b></p><p>For example, running :</p><p><b class="command">nmblookup -U samba.org -R 'IRIX#1B'</b></p><p>would query the WINS server samba.org for the domain
master browser (1B name type) for the IRIX workgroup.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
- the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="nmbd.8.html">
nmbd(8)</a>, <a href="samba.7.html">samba(7)</a>, and <a href="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
+ the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="nmbd.8.html">
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a>, <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a>, and <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
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